The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twenty-fourth session, agreed to explore how it might facilitate a more effective dialogue between Parties and the regional and international climate change research programmes, in the context of decision 9/CP.11. The SBSTA invited Parties and these programmes to submit to the secretariat, by 23 February 2007, their views on this subject, for consideration by the SBSTA at its twenty-sixth session (FCCC/SBSTA/2006/5, para. 46). The secretariat has received 8 such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for
miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing